Not exact matches
Here again, the PC
games industry — perhaps emblematic of its more pressing struggle to
survive over the last decade — has led the way with new business models, or
marketing strategies as some prefer to call it.
Street Fighter V has made it clear that a fighting
game can not
survive in today's
market without offering something beyond basic «versus» capability.
After they spent the time building up their PS3 code base for their move into the Playstation
market they need to step up their efforts and stop wasting time on the graphically weak 360 if they are going to hope to
survive in the incredibly competitive PS3 fighting
game market with God of War 3, Heavenly Sword, and DMC4.
The first five
games he made failed to gain any real
market traction, so James was
surviving on a part - time teaching job while coding almost every minute of the day and night.
If the point of your original article is that developers such as yourself can't possibly
survive in this «race to the bottom» indie
game market selling
games for a buck, that point is completely negated when you say over and over in the comments that in fact your company is doing quite well for itself and makes tons of money on its
games.
GameSauce recently had the opportunity to interview Forest and Aaron San Filippo about their backgrounds, Flippfly's origin, their
games, and
surviving in the indie
market.
But the fact is that the landscape of gaming on the go has severely changed and both Nintendo and Sony will have to step their
game up if they want to
survive in a
market full of $ 0.99
games that, in the mind of many casual consumers, offers as much value as any $ 40
game.
Another comparison can be drawn between LawBreakers and Metal Gear
Survive in the fact that both
games failed due to bad
marketing.
The mobile
games market is still growing, but that doesn't mean it's easier for anybody but the top publishers to
survive.
Our first talk of the State of Play track came from Unreal Engine evangelist Sjoerd De Jong, who spoke about
surviving as a small studio in the current
games market.
The indie devs
survive because they sacrifice their time for the love of the
game, but at the end of the day, love doesn't pay the bills, and video
games are a hugely saturated
market.
However, there is one example of the
game that i know of, which managed to
survive more than 30 years in the constant popularity, breaking common rules of
games market.